Historically I've gone for Lenovo laptops, at least for their business segments they've been good with releasing updates to fix security issues for many years. Having a promise of 5 years of firmware updates would be lovely though.
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For some reason I imagine a toilet that automates a stool test and blood test and gives you a health report every month.
AUX, MicroSD, smaller format and big battery was the reason I went for my Sony Xperia 10 IV (budget phone, got mine new for 260€) device.
Sadly their software updates are only for two years as otherwise I would've been interested in the Sony Xperia 5 series (compact flagship). I'm not paying flagship prices for a phone that stops updating after two years.
I hope that the EU regulation forcing 5 years of updates for phones and tablets starting June 2025 will allow me a compact flagship phone with aux, big battery and updates for a long time.
https://repair.eu/sv/news/new-eu-rules-smartphones-and-tablets-will-follow-new-ecodesign-requirements-by-june-2025/
Info that could help others help you:
House or flat?
Renting or owning?
How large an area do you need to heat?
How many rooms?
Temperature and savings:
Where I live they say that a house with people living in it should be at least 16°C (~60°F) to handle the moisture we generate.
Humans should have at least 18°C (64°F), preferably 20°C (68°F).
That means that you could close doors and let unoccupied rooms have lower temperature than the rooms you use.
If you're stuck with space heaters then you'll save quite a lot that way.
OpenWrt with 802.11r and 802.11s configured will work as a mesh network with roaming functionality.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/mesh/80211s
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/roaming
Not many Ruckus devices that are supported though:
Brand - Model - Supported Version
Ruckus - ZF7025 - 23.05.2
Ruckus - ZF7321 - 23.05.2
Ruckus - ZF7341 - 23.05.2
Ruckus - ZF7343 - 23.05.2
Ruckus - ZF7351 - 23.05.2
Ruckus - ZF7352 - 23.05.2
Ruckus - ZF7363 - 23.05.2
Ruckus - ZF7372 - 23.05.2
https://openwrt.org/toh/start?toh.filter.supportedcurrentrel=22.03%7C23.05
Tables are something that’s just a given in excel, takes 10 seconds to setup, and you get automatic sorting and filtering, with near-zero effort.
I also find excel easier to use than libreoffice calc as I'm more experienced with excel. This example though is easily solved by using Autostyle + Autoformat
Adding some more links:
Tier List, choosing an A-Tier PSU with from this list helps ensure quality:
https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/
They also have a spreadsheet that lists the details that they use to create their tiered list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eL0893Ramlwk6E3s3uSvH1_juom7SMG5SCNzP2Uov8w/edit?gid=1214219159#gid=1214219159
Toms Hardware, info about 80 Plus efficiency levels:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/what-80-plus-levels-mean,36721.html
Case:
The Fractal Design Define 7 without glass pane looks like a boring black box but the dust filters and noise cancelling is wonderful and it's really easy to build in. I would choose that one over the North series.
PSU:
I would try to up the Watt to at least 850W. The closer to 50% psu use the more efficient the psu is and the wattage that isn't used efficiently turns into heat.
Getting a 1000 Watt Platinum PSU would result in a cooler and quieter case, but not very budget friendly.
A stronger PSU also increases the chances of you bringing it with you into your next computer build, or being able to add a stronger GPU to the current build in the future.
Software: OpenWrt - https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/roaming
Devices: Supported devices found here - https://openwrt.org/toh/start?toh.filter.supportedcurrentrel=22.03%7C23.05
They will use popups asking you to upgrade to a premium version:
https://adblockultimate.net/pricing
Which is kinda silly when they seem to mostly copy the work of others:
https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/1078
I second the uBlock Origin recommendation.
pfsense and opnsense are very similar. The pfsense devs has acted like jackasses towards the opnsense gang. They are both great for a router/firewall/vpn device. I would use external access points with them.
I think there are more addons to pfsense than opnsense.
OpenWrt is great when it comes to WiFi, but I find it much less intuitive to use for router/firewall parts. Could be that I am used to the way pfsense and opnsense do things.
Neither do switching from what I know, so pair the router with a switch of your choice.
Alternatively, you can create new users from the command line.
This can be done as follows:
If synapse was installed via pip, activate the virtualenv as follows (if Synapse was installed via a prebuilt package, register_new_matrix_user should already be on the search path):
cd ~/synapse
source env/bin/activate
synctl start # if not already running
Run the following command:
register_new_matrix_user -c homeserver.yaml
This will prompt you to add details for the new user, and will then connect to the running Synapse to create the new user. For example:
New user localpart: erikj
Password:
Confirm password:
Make admin [no]:
Success!
This process uses a setting registration_shared_secret, which is shared between Synapse itself and the register_new_matrix_user script.
It doesn't matter what it is (a random value is generated by --generate-config), but it should be kept secret, as anyone with knowledge of it can register users, including admin accounts, on your server even if enable_registration is false.
https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/setup/installation.html